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GAS BURNING ATTACHMENT FOR STOVES.

No. 531,749. Patented Jan.- 1, 1895.

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UNlTED STATES PATENT @rricn'.

OSCAR RICHTER, OF MILWAUKEE, YVISOONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO OSCAR FRITZE, OF SAME PLACE.

GAS-BURNING ATTACHMENT FOR STOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 531,749, dated January 1, 1895.

Application filed April 5, 1894;. Serial No. 506,435. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OSCAR RICHTER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Millwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas-Burning Attachments for Stoves; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has for its object to convert a cook-stove primarily constructed for burning wood or coal, into one for the utilization of gas as fuel; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subse quently claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal section of an ordinary wood or coal burning cook-stove and my gas-burning apparatus in connection therewith; Fig. 2, a plan view of the gasburning apparatus; Fig. 3, a detail plan view partly in horizontal section illustrating a water-front heater; Fig.

4, a sectional view on line e---l of the first figure.

Referring by letter to the drawings A represents a portion of an ordinary wood or coal burning cook-stove having a water-front 13 0 as an attachment thepeto, and in line with each top opening of the stove is a fuel-gas burner O fitted to the inner end of a horizontal pipe D, the other end of, the pipe being fitted to a bell-like mixing-chamber E that 3 5 extends through the front upper door-way of said stove and is provided with a transverse centrally apertured bar I) for detachable engagement with the tapered nozzle of a gascock F joined to a supply-pipe G parallel to 0 the stove-front.

The pipes D are held together at certain intervals by transverse corrugated plates H bolted together in pairs, one above and another below said pipes, as many pairs of the 5 clamp-plates being employed as may be found necessary or desirable.

.Vhile all of the pipes are approximately parallel for aportion of their length the inner ones having the rear burners fitted thereto necessarily diverge from each other so as to bring said burners in line with the rear openings in the stove and by means of screws I Working in the front and rear clamp-plates to bear on adjacent parts of the stove the structure embracing the pipes, burners and said plates may be vertically adjusted to ro ulate the distance between the top of said stove and said burners.

The structure above specified may be read ily positioned in the stove when the topplates of the same are removed, and in order that the gas-cocks may not be accidentally disengaged from the apertu red cross-bars b in the mixing-chambers E, any suitable braces may be employed, those herein shown being stiff metal straps J having their outer ends bent around the gas-supply-pipe G, run in against the front wall of the stove-oven and joined to similar straps K impinged against the water-front B or the front grate I. if there be no water-front.

As a heater for the water-front I employ a perforated pipe ill arranged in front of the grate L and provided with an elbowed portion N fitted to a mixing-chamber P similar 7 to those above specified, this mixing-chamber being detachably joined to the tapered nozzle of a cock Q, fitted to the gassupply system.

A suitably bent stiif metal strap B may be run in the stove to rest upon the bottom grate S under the back ledge T of said stove to serve as a brace or support for the perforated pipe or heater for the water-front.

The gas-supply fixtures may be permanent and the burner apparatus set up and taken away at will with but little if any expense or trouble, this being one of the advantages of said apparatus.

WVhile I have shown my gas-burning apparatus organized for a fourhole cook-stove the same may be as readily organized for stoves or ranges having a greater or less number of holes, and the burners being adjustable said apparatus is readily adaptable to variations in stoves of different makes.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An apparatus for the utilization of gas in a cook stove primarily designed for burn- 10o ing solid fuel, said apparatus comprising a series of horizontal pipes, transverse corrugated clamp-plates arranged above and below the pipes and bolted together in pairs, adjusting-screws that work in certain of the plates and bear against parts of the stove, burners fitted to inner ends of the pipes to come in line with top-openingsin said stove, and mixing-chambers at the outer ends of the pipes for connection with cocks of a gas supply system.

2. An apparatus for the utilization of gas in a cook-stove primarily designed for burning solid fuel and having a water-front, said apparatus comprising a series of horizontal pipes transverse corrugated clamp-plates arranged above and below the pipes, vertically adjustable supports for the connected pipes and clamp-plates, burners fitted to the inner OSCAR RICHTER.

lVitnesses:

N. E. OLIPHANT, HENRY DANKERT. 

